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>create fact-checking and supposedly neutral "services"/media >due to selection bias, those "services" and the people providing them end up being heavily on on
by trention 4y ago
>create fact-checking and supposedly neutral "services"/media
>due to selection bias, those "services" and the people providing them end up being heavily on one side of the political spectrum
>deus ex machina (no, not really)
>wonder why people on the other side of the political spectrum refuse to trust your fact-checking "services"/media
- throwawayacc2 4y agoI don’t understand why this is being downvoted. I was literally told this by multiple people. Hell, even I have this feeling. I’m not even american and I know fact checking is done by liberals for liberals.
- VancouverMan 4y agoIt fell victim to the very same phenomenon it is describing. Online user-generated-content moderation systems (whether upvoting/downvoting, Slashdot-style, etc.) are just a type of "fact-checking" in practice. When the ability/opportunity to act as a moderator within such a system depends on conforming with the community, then biases can become repeatedly amplified over time, and the results of such moderation become questionable to a sizable part of the population.
- silent_cal 4y agoTech is an isolated bubble politically speaking, but I'm surprised to see how many people see through it here on HN.
- trention 4y agoMy first work visit to silicon valley was during the democratic primaries in 2016. Most people there were supporting Bernie Sanders. While me, being from Eastern Europe, could see through him quite easily. I pretty much made all the inferences I will ever need about the valley-type demographics back then. Nothing since has disproved any of them.
- shillsheepy 4y agoEvery time me hitting HN someone wrote 'I didn't get what the news is (on a/this topic/thread)' ? ˁ ˆ͜ᴥˆ ˀ